Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.

— Ira Glass (via @tlow)


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Click Play, and make sure to watch this in HD.

If I only had to play one game coming out next year this would be it. Journey looks fantastic and I’m really loving the Shadow of the Colossus vibe. One major difference between Journey and Shadow of the Colossus is that in Journey you have the opportunity to interact with complete strangers and the ability to choose whether or not to help each other out. Journey is more of a social experiment wrapped inside of this beautiful game. It’s amazing what an indie studio can do with some money and support from a big publisher like SCEA.